"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
-Thomas A. Edison
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"To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.“
-Thomas A. Edison
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"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
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"The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense."
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"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."
-Thomas A. Edison
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"It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work."
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"I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world."
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"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
-C. S. Lewis
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"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."
-Woody Allen
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"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."
-Ernst Fischer
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"Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know."
-Groucho Marx
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"I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot."
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"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."
-Andy Warhol
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